I know it's the though that counts... But within reason. My coworkers today gave me a gift two weeks after my birthday (because they admitted they forgot about it), made up of stuff that was bought yesterday and is very impersonal. It's a lunch bag filled with off brand chocolates (that were so cheap my coworker even posted on Facebook yesterday all the stuff she bought with the slip so I could see the chocolates were (in dollars) all less than $1 each. Probably a grand total of $10 dollars worth of chocolate, in a bag probably worth another $10. From all three of my coworkers . Three weeks ago we all contributed to get the other lady over $100 worth of gifts, carefully planned, bought well before her birthday. And I get this. I had contributed $20 worth of gifts each for the two whose birthdays have already passed, because I actually give a damn. I feel so underappreciated and horrible. Again I know it's the thought that counts, but it was such a last minute and sloppy gift.

To those who obviously don't get it, I actually would have preferred nothing.

Thank you Laura for understanding that it's not so much about the monetary than the thought. I just mentioned the monetary to kind of drive home how much thought I put into their gifts, especially considering I also earn the least out of all of them.

I gave all the chocolates to a homeless kid in the street. Made his day.

MY LAST UPDATE ON THIS: My point about the money is that I went and bought something nice and useful for the one lady, and as a group we all went and bought her stuff that she liked and was interested in. We made an EFFORT, I made an EFFORT. They make huge deals of their birthdays and I make a huge deal with them. I was given a gift that had no effort put in. It's hurtful because I thought we were all friends and we all do nice things for each other but obviously that's not the case. I couldn't care less about the monetary value of gift. I was once given a gift that was extremely cheap but because it was of an angel and I collect angels, I loved it. My point was that the money spent was towards something that was of value (not monetary value).

To those who actually got the point, thank you. To those who didn't, you can call me whatever you want. I know I'm not entitled, I'm not ungrateful, I'm hurt. if that's how I came across then well I'm sorry because I'm not like that.